Quotes about pray
prayer believe law
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.' Francis Bacon
prayer community listening
A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift. Jean Vanier
prayer garden doors
Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.
prayer heart people
I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Gucci Mane
prayer meaning-of-life lord
Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok. Graham Chapman
prayer men class
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings. Graham Greene
prayer hate tired
I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.
prayer mean way
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you. Girolamo Savonarola
prayer mean thinking
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. Gerald Vann
prayer forever might
Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it. Gregory Maguire
prayer heart men
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire. Homer
prayer mean exercise
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. Ignatius of Loyola
prayer effort meditation
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.
prayer desire asking
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
prayer men keys
Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness. Hugh Miller
prayer
My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do. Hugh Prather
prayer meditation spurs
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. Hortense Calisher
prayer tests enterprise
Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer. Hosea Ballou
prayer humble heart
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
prayer humble use
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.
prayer garden land
This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden Horace
prayer real self
Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.. Guy Finley
prayer ninety-nine names
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own. Friedrich Nietzsche
praying hell lost
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. George Bernard Shaw
prayer mercy-of-god venice
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
prayer people political
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
prayer self voice
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity. Gelsey Kirkland
prayer self
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love. Frederick William Robertson
prayer passionate-desire expectations
That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.
prayer wish praying
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
prayer hands giving
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century. Freeman Dyson
prayer writing form
Writing [is] a form of prayer. Franz Kafka
prayed time
Every time I had a thought, I was praying, I've never prayed so much in my life.